Joel joined the Central family in February of 2023. Joel is a 2006 graduate of Harding University with a B.A. in Music and Youth Ministry. He served as a volunteer youth minister at the Chattanooga Church of Christ and the Brainerd Church of Christ from 2006 to 2009. He and his wife Melissa married in the spring of 2008. He went into fulltime youth ministry in 2009 at the Herrin Church of Christ in Herrin, Illinois. He left there in 2011 to serve at the Washington Street Church of Christ till the fall of 2012. He stepped away from ministry from 2012 until 2019. He served as vouth minister for the Sunset Church of Christ in Carlsbad, New Mexico from 2019 till 2023. He and his wife Melissa have two children. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, watching movies, playing video games and has an obsession with pop culture from the 1980’s and 90’s
Joel Taylor
